Cigarette-case.



0. w. CLIFFORD.

CIGARETTE CASE. APPLICATION FILED-MAR. 24, I916.

Patented May 23, 1916.

UNITED STATES PATENT QFFIQE.

ORIN W. CLIFFORD, or NORTH ATTLEBoRo', MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR ToWEBSTER COMPANY, or NORTH ATTLEBORO, MASSACHUSETTS, A CORPORATION orRHODE ISLAND.

CIGARETTE-CASE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 23, 1916.

Application filed March 24, 1916. Serial No. 86,412.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ORIN W. CLIFFORD, a citizen of the United States,residing at North Attleboro, in the county of Bristol and State ofMassachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Cigarette-Cases, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements incigarette cases, and the primary object of the invention is to provide acase in which a holder is provided that is composed of a pair ofindependently mounted parts each of which has or is capable of movementindependent of the other, and each of which is tensioned independentlyof the other.

Still further, the invention aims to provide a .novel and simple meansfor tensioning the two holder parts and the two case parts and tootherwise simplify and decrease the cost of production of cases of thegeneral type set forth.

In the drawings-Figure l is a top plan view, the case being completelyopen. Fig. 2 is a section on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a similarview on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2. The case is composed of a front 1 andback 2 connected by hinge knuckles 3 to a hinge pintle 4. The holder iscomposed of two similar sections or parts 5 having confronting andregistering cigarette seats 6 as depicted in Fig. 1.

Eachof the sections 5 has a pair of depending or outwardly extendingshanks 7 which are formed, preferably, integral with the holders asshown. The shanks 7 are formed with preferably single knuckles 8 whichare engaged by the pintle 4, the shanks having bottom parts 9 spacedfrom the knuckles 3 so that the sections 5 may swing to and frowithoutinterference with or from the knuckles 3. For the purpose of notonly tensioning the two sections 5, 5, but also for the purpose oftensioning the front and back of the case, a pair of coil springs 10 areemployed, which springs are coiled about the pintle 1, and have theirends extending upwardly at 11 to engage the outer side faces of thesections 5 and downwardly at 12, to engage the front and back of thecase. As shown in Fig. 2, the shanks 7 are spaced apart permitting theupwardly extending ends 11 of the springs to pro]ect into or throughthis space. In operation, either of the two sections 5 or both may bemoved to admit cigarettes therebetween, and the act of opening orreleasing the catches C enables the springs to automatically move thefront and back to lie in the same plane, with the holder extending atright angles to the front and back, which thus enables the use of buttwo springs to tension each of the two sections and both the front andvback.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent is In a cigarette case, a front, a back, eachhaving hinge knuckles, a pintle passed through the knuckles, a holdercomposed of two sections each formed with a contracted shank, the shankshaving knuckles engaged with Said pintle and having cut-away parts whichoverlie the front and back knuckles, said shanks being spaced apart, anda pair of coil springs on the pintle, separated by Copies of this patentmay be obtained for five cent: each, by addressing the Commissioner ofPatents,

Washington, D. 0.

